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Playing on my PinePhone Pro using Backbone One controller. Some missions are super hard because the game does not have any aim-heper for gamepads. The game runs mostly smooth, but sometimes I experience small yet noticeable FPS drops depending on the weather and time of day.

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[–] Grass@geddit.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Is the pro fairly powerful? I have the non-pro and it can barely handle running the os. Edit: damn that's a pricy controller.

[–] Shatur@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I also have the original PinePhone and bought Pro because the original is to slow :) Pro is way faster then the original, but is still slow compared to modern phones.

Yes, the controller is pricy. I tried buying GameSir X2 Pro first. It works with the original PP, but can't charge and play with the Pro. I talked to megi about it and he said that the issue in the gamepad. Also it doesn't have a headphone jack. So I sold it and bought a Backbone.

[–] fleg@szmer.info 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unpopular opinion: non-pro can handle the OS just fine and then some. Try out SailfishOS (unfortunately not OSS) - it's as smooth as butter. Or UBPorts - it works great (unfortunately both Sailfish and UBPorts aren't as polished when it comes to actual hardware support on PinePhone, but they show nicely what could be done). I don't think I even need to mention Sxmo, which is no surprise that it works great, but its approach is definitely not for everyone.

It's just Gnome/Plasma that are mainly developed for "big" computers and are pretty wasteful. But the situation is definitely improving.

[–] Grass@geddit.social 2 points 1 year ago

I have sxmo on it currently but I haven't been using it much. I was exaggerating a bit, but it is just slow/choppy enough that I can't do my typical web research comfortably